/sci/ - Science & Math

1. IQ is the best definition of intelligence. Someone who scores <60 can without doubt never be an educated individual. Someone with IQ 140 will definitely have it easier to learn abstract stuff compared to someone with IQ 100.
2. Intelligence does not imply success, nor vice versa. Paris Hilton didn't get rich by virtue of her intelligence. Neither did Donald Trump. Joe Biden didn't become president because of his intelligence. Klaus Schwab and Larry Fink are among the most powerful people in the world, yet while being certainly above average they are by far no genius mathematicians. Meanwhile a lot of highly intelligent people work wage slave jobs in R&D and will never be known by name. Success is primarily about looks and socioeconomic class.
3. Intelligence does not imply a moral obligation to do research, let alone to advance the inhumane industrial-technological system. In fact a genius who is also capable of morality will rather want to leave acadummia behind and live innawoods.
4. Citations on your papers amount to nothing more than a social credit score. Acadummia is a hostile environment to the genius, constantly enforcing conformity and a mindset of quantity over quality. Pajeet, Zhang et al will gain lots of citations by producing a shitload of low quality papers only to be cited by other midwits doing the same. Meanwhile a genius will be denied funding because he is deemed economically disadvantageous as soon as he plans to do more than three months of research, as this contradicts the shortsighted capitalist mindset of never planning further than the current quarterly figures.